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Line 45: − After the Afghan government fell and president [[Ashraf Ghani]] fled to [[Tajikistan]], the Biden regime was given a choice by the Taliban to secure the entire city of Kabul or just the airport. The Biden regime told the Taliban they could have the city and the US would just secure the airport according to ''[[The Washington Post]].''+ + + + + + + + + +
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The U.S. military abandoned the strategic Bagram Airfield in [[Afghanistan]] at 3:00 AM on July 2, 2021 without informing Afghan National Army forces who were due to take it over.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9758175/US-left-Afghan-airfield-night-didnt-tell-new-commander.html</ref> Gen. Mir Asadullah Kohistani of the Afghan Army said he only discovered the Americans had left two hours after they were gone when they called from Kabul airport. By the time Kohistani arrived with his troops, looters had carried away many items left behind by soldiers such as laptops, stereos, bicycles and guitars. Gen. Kohistani said troops left behind Bagram's 5,000 Taliban inmates, arms, ammunition, along with hundreds of armored military vehicles, such as Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs) and thousands of civilian cars and trucks.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-left-behind-millions-of-things-at-key-base-2021-7</ref>
The U.S. military abandoned the strategic Bagram Airfield in [[Afghanistan]] at 3:00 AM on July 2, 2021 without informing Afghan National Army forces who were due to take it over.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9758175/US-left-Afghan-airfield-night-didnt-tell-new-commander.html</ref> Gen. Mir Asadullah Kohistani of the Afghan Army said he only discovered the Americans had left two hours after they were gone when they called from Kabul airport. By the time Kohistani arrived with his troops, looters had carried away many items left behind by soldiers such as laptops, stereos, bicycles and guitars. Gen. Kohistani said troops left behind Bagram's 5,000 Taliban inmates, arms, ammunition, along with hundreds of armored military vehicles, such as Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs) and thousands of civilian cars and trucks.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-left-behind-millions-of-things-at-key-base-2021-7</ref>
Hours after the Afghan government fell and president [[Ashraf Ghani]] fled to [[Tajikistan]] on August 15, 22021, the Biden regime was given a choice by the Taliban to secure the entire city of Kabul or just the airport. The Biden regime told the Taliban they could have the city and the US would just secure the airport according to ''[[The Washington Post]]:''
{{quotebox0float|"In a hastily arranged in-person meeting, senior U.S. military leaders in Doha — including McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command — spoke with Abdul Ghani Baradar, head of the Taliban’s political wing.
“We have a problem,” Baradar said, according to the U.S. official. “We have two options to deal with it: You [the United States military] take responsibility for securing Kabul or you have to allow us to do it.”
Throughout the day, Biden had remained resolute in his decision to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan. The collapse of the Afghan government hadn’t changed his mind.
McKenzie, aware of those orders, told Baradar that the U.S. mission was only to evacuate American citizens, Afghan allies and others at risk. The United States, he told Baradar, needed the airport to do that.
On the spot, an understanding was reached, according to two other U.S. officials: The United States could have the airport until Aug. 31. But the Taliban would control the city.<ref>https://archive.is/cuWJ7</ref>}}
===Mark Milley===
===Mark Milley===